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SUBMITTER: Rice LB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2943565 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rice Louis B LB Carias Lenore L LL Rudin Susan S Hutton Rebecca A RA Marshall Steven S
Plasmid 20100625 3
Tn916 and similar elements are very common in clinical enterococcal isolates, and are responsible for transmission of a variety of resistance determinants. It is commonly assumed that clinical strains carrying Tn916 have a single copy, although the actual number of copies in clinical isolates has never been systematically studied. We report a clinical isolate of Enterococcus faecium in which three distinct and excision-proficient copies of Tn916-like elements are present in the genome. All of th ...[more]